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Coso_17543
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Mar 14, 2011

BigIp source addresses

hi all,     I don't know if this is an easy question but it's a bit urgent for me.     We need to balance 2 servers under a VIP for some services, telnet and FTP included.     The po...
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Mar 14, 2011
Well if I correctly understood SNAT should be used for security and for routing issues.

 

 

In our LAN all users , bigip and servers are all routed but we didn't used bigip too much until now, considering also that VIP creation enable "address Translation" by default.

 

 

I never pretty understood what "address translation" does on a VIP configuration.

 

What happen if for that VIP I uncheck "address translation" ? All requests are directly forwarded to nodes with no transformations and nodes will reply deirectly to the users machines?